Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s music ain’t got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
BOB SEGEREven in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
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The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
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I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.
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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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Stood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
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Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
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